| Show 4P - 11 n iiii:ii:i falit etibunt t1 "'-- ::''' : Oiii:ii' ':::::::::::"'::::::::' MO Section i:::i ::- ' Page 10 A "" " tile- - '':: :: i - wo then this case represents a sad com mentary on the community's ability to protect itself from traffic dangers created by habitual drunks Jail alone isn't the answer Even when cells are empty Once arrested the drinker conspicuously likely to be a menace to himself or others when released ought to be placed with specialists capable of giving appropriate treatment Such services exist in Salt Lake County But Mr Stevens' death tragically illustrates imperfect connection between them and authorities dealing with chronic drunken drivers or other dangerous inebriates How else to explain letting someone already arrested on 16 charges go free to continue driving drunk? More than incarceration is essential Whether there's room in the jail Salt Lake County needs a process for transferring problem alcoholics to rehabilitation treatment Yes to "get them off the street" before they cause serious damage injury or death But also to improve the community's against these people when they regain their freedom either following prison terms or after brief arrest detention The threat is from a form of excess alcohol consumption not apt to be cured by mere jailing or imprisonment Someone with 16 drunken driving arrests obviously needs detention Not just long enough to sober up so he can get drunk again when released becoming as much a traffic peril as he was 16 times before What's needed is professional counseling and help to increase chances of safer long-tersobriety Moreover a law enforcement system responsible for protecting life and limb in the community should have direct effective access to that option whenever circumstances clearly warrant either Sentencing the habitual drinker in this bizarre case to the Utah State Prison for five years maximum 3rd District Its Judge Timothy Hanson said " beyond me how you could be arrested and released from jail and get right back in the car" It happens judge because there's no local procedure for getting people like this better sobering-uhelp Earl Leslie Clearly if Thalman had been arrested more than a dozen times previously for driving drunk chances were slim that he would not repeat the offense when he was released on a similar charge Jan 18 in Salt Lake County Since — the reason given for his release — no room existed to hold him in a fully occupied county jail the next best alternative should have been a supervised alcoholic recovery program That too was unavailable Consequently 15 hours after being turned loose Thalman was driving drunk again this time with fatal consequences as he collided at the intersection of 900 South and 200 West with Leon Stevens' vehicle causing the 70- s needless death Sentenced to the maximum prison term for felony automobile homicide fined $2500 ordered to pay $250 in attorney fees and $14227 in expenses incurred by the victim's family Thalman has finally been punished but the example set is no guarantee against more such mayhem p third-degre- e In another revealing comment Judge Hanson said of his sentencing: Treatment was actually indicated but sending the man to prison was necessary "for no other reason than to keep x e ii ti — ' if: i ' '4 i t t- 1 J 1 l "' I I t - ii r! 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We also taught the Japanese to stress production of goods of quality and value as opposed to shoddy junk As the 1945 leaders in efficiency and teamwork we dispatched experts like W Edwards Deming to show Japan how to make the most of human as well as l capital resources We taught the Japanese upper class how to lead as well as command how to get everybody involved in solving the problem They learned while many American businesses forgot the lessons of leadership we taught in 1945 Instead of careerist focusing on angles to increase their own slice of the pie the Japanese businesses got their people enthusiastically working together to bake ever-largpies for the whole team By the beginning of the 1980s economist Lester Thurow was pointing out that the greatest productive combination in the world was American workers and Japanese managers This has become a cliche: The car in America last year was a Japanese dey o Back to 1944: Wallace who was FDR's choice to replace Garner in 1940 turned out to be a liability He was a mystic and far too liberal even for many of the New Dealers So Harry Truman was chosen He of course became president when FDR died Dan Quayle no doubt hopes the hitting streak of vice presidents continues in 1992 Since World War II there have been four opportunities for a president to keep or dump a vice president Each time the decision was to keep That would be Richard Nixon Spiro Agnew Walter Mondale and George Bush (The four vice presidents dumped 1856-194represented 57 percent of those to whom it could have happened Three survived in other words) By the way the Truman decision was made in a smoke-filleroom at the Blackstone Hotel in Chicago That's the same hotel whence the phrase "smoke-filleroom" entered the political lexicon in 1920 Political bosses chose Warren Harding for the Republican presidential nomination in one there In her biography of her father Margaret Truman says her dad went from the smoke-filleroom and "woke up" fellow Missouri Sen Champ Clark so he could nominate him Truman said he went there and "sobered up" Clark I don't want to be unfair History says Schuyler Colfax was a crook but it was never proved in court and he never admitted it Ile told a congressional committee he had no idea there was a thousand dollar bill in that 4 boss-fille- d d d d Washington Post Service WASHINGTON —Of all the frauds perpetrated in Washington over the last few years none has been more damaging than the annual pretense that Congress and the president are gradually but steadily whittling down the budget deficit It feeds an complacency And it postpones serious efforts to deal with the barrier of acting on every challenge from Our deteriorating transportation network to the needs of the fledgling democrai in Eastern Europe and central America cies An effective way to expose the fiscal chica has been sug nery of current budget-makingesied by Sem Terry Sanford It will be considered later this spring when the Sen ate Budget Conatuttee takes up proposals for improving tthe budget process Sanford has done Lis hoinewerk He un derstands that the annual autumn ritual in which the president and Congress congratulate for reaching 19)15 Gramm-Rudmatiolliangs (Usti by the 1 law is a charade He also understands that even if by some miracle thy Demucrats in Congress and the Republican administration vide to agree to the ambitious defidEreduction Flan yroposed In Rep fiat Rostenkowski Dill when the dei'leit isappeared' in 1994 the national debt Anniti con tinue to grow t i billions of d o a s each ye:t The reasWi is that the current t defied cal dilations aty rigged to make the politicians loot good Even while (I I: II "divipline supposedly has been in effect Satiforcl points Out roughly S25b billnui has been added to the national debt each year That rs why the statutory hmit on Pie ciebt had to bt: raised from $I 9 trillion in No‘enitier 191V to tF1 trillion it Noteinie 19w4 11"t it- the tea Ineasurt! of how Li 'C t'!!11! 11(I (! paytrq! (Jur bi:is iiIIHI Mit lonnti41 ht4i1t it deficit-reductio- l I -: ' '''Ox :"(" "What do we know about a tax case being argued before the US Supreme Court and do we want to know more?" l t ' 0 11 : - - t " yt-: fi I 4' '' : '' 417-- datt ' -- y4g3rsil 000 ::::'-: I We Helped Japan Germany i 11 ' L I:1- Pitiks"rE : 4 - 4 :::: ' ' - P: '0 - k ' 4 ': ' ! t L ' -- ? ' -- ' 1t 4 illi k lir silh - t ''- IP' -1 ::::::: -- 11 :: H 'ii::" often-bruta- best-sellin- g sign A Japanese-owne- d Japanese-manage- d plant builds the car — but the plant is in Ohio and the workers are Americans Meanwhile we specialized in coming up with new ways of juggling numbers rather than producing goods and services we may no longer have the highest standard of living for workers but we lead the world in golden parachutes As the World War LI winners we took a somewhat different course in occupied West Germany But both "economic miracles" had things in common: the Germans like the Japanese came back the hard way sacrificing to maintain a stable currency avoiding runaway inflation saving and looking ahead to the future None of which is to say that those old foes have become either supermen or angels It does suggest that we might examine all those lectures we gave them back then on how to make the most of democracy and capitalism through prudent responsible leadership and economic policies based on e rather than We might even consider practicing now what we preached then They certainly have been practicing what we preached and look where that's got them Are Budgetary Constraints Taken in Jest? 1 -- r !pi f?: ' The last vice president dumped was Henry Wallace Franklin Roosevelt dumped him in 1944 Wallace was the only vice president in this century who could truly be said to have been dumped FDR also chose a new running mate in 1940 but Vice President John Garner wasn't dumped he jumped Ile opposed MR's bid for a third term going all the way to a challenge on the Democratic convention floor MR edged him out 946-6- :1 ?f ' ' - t ': — 1017 BR ITEws Y1c-7- : - t cti d0 1"F TOor"rro- - 7 ' '''':" '" n - is'44 ii:e4 — ) t t :45414 ' 1- Alle O I '''-: :' : ::::'! 1 t - i t- :' -: T::i- ill viiilhvo '1 ' - two-part- y : " -- -' '':' 1 11 e t ' i 1 rj i: N i ''''1 '' - u:::::ry -4 k§ 'it-- - :! ''''' '1''''' : :' J''-44442- :' - : it:1 1 r- t - i I 42 1 ': i :'- SP ‘ fip c4 ' :" :: SHIAAJFCAO - e Ail 44: J41 GHLIGHT -- 3i4 ' ''' '' :''- i '4 't r ': ( ''''''': -:: 7 1 i7 t'"t! 7 2?-7- I lelP ncle0 J856 ' 016 720' I I ' tt r a::" I : :::::'":::s- dents from Indiana lately A recent Gallup Poll found that by nearly two to one Americans find Dan Quayle unqualified to be president Fewer people feel positive about him now than when he took office If this keeps up he could become the first veep dumped in 48 years and only the fifth since the current system began in - tt7 " :I 1 - The Baltimore Sun March 23 was Schuyler Colfax's birthday An Indianian he was US Grants first vice president He was one of those rare veeps who was dumped from a ticket Because he was caught taking a bribe many people assume Colfax was dumped for being corrupt He wasn't The Grant administration was So was America in those days (In those days?) James Garfield was implicated in the same scandal as Colfax and he was later elected president Grant dumped Colfax from the ticket because the vice president was flirting with a presidential bid even as Grant was preparing to run again I've been thinking of dumped vice presi- 650-sea- anti-Thatch- '5 By Theo wellspring for Laborites Lords who once paid tens of thousands of pounds in taxes on their sprawling mansions now need only produce a few hundred Conversely nearby renters who had never paid any property tax will now write out the same size checks as their noble neighbors If incurring Labor's wrath were the extent of it Mrs Thatcher could weather this squall as she has previous ones (In 1985 she had a meager Gallup poll rating and her government barely survived a vote of confidence by 17 votes in the t House of Commons "She seems to have lost her magic" one British newspaper wrote) The difference this time is the desertions in her own party The Conservatives like US Republicans are known to be much more faithful than their counterparts That is what makes the vote so important Never one for coalitions Mrs Thatcher owes much of what she has accomplished to her stubbornness She has never been afraid to tackle a powerful labor union or jettison a popular cabinet member who got in her way but that only works when things are going well every time an election rolls around Pollsters have the Tories losing to the Labor Party by about 20 points if an election were held today One won't be held today because it isn't required until 1992 unless her Tory support erodes to the point where they decide to call one earlier If the economy improves during the next two years the British may forget the poll tax long enough for Prime Minister Thatcher to claim her unprecedented fourth term If not the Iron Lady's regime may become another relic in Britain's glorious past "by-electio- ' :::::::::- ::::::: C) II ' -- A : ( ille ::i::::: ::::::::0':':r- oup'' J) 6 i:::::::::: 0000:::::::::::::::::::Xiiii:::':iniiinne: " : i''''''-"':- ::i::i:-: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::z: 1 1 ifilitili Thatcher Miracles Dwindle Britain's Margaret Thatcher may have finally met her match and it may be the "Iron Lady" herself Mrs Thatcher whose 11 years as prime minister is the longest continuous tenure of any world leader has found herself in the most tenuous political shape of her career In a held last week to fill a parliament seat in traditionally held by her conservative Tory party Mrs Thatcher saw her candidate walloped by a Labor Party candidate with a decisive 16 percent majority While the seat itself has little importance in terms of controlling the House of Commons the loss was another hint that the woman who has been called Ronald Reagan's political soul mate may be joining him in retirement Having made her reputation as the Churchill of the British economy Mrs Thatcher now finds considerable tarnish on the miracle she pulled off in the early 1980s Inflation has doubled to around 8 percent since she won in 1987 and interest rates are running almost twice that But the catalyst in the current sentiment is her own revampsystem to fund ing of the property-talocal government services After April 1 Britons will no longer pay property taxes Instead each citizen is assessed a "community charge" regardless of their property holdings or their incomes The charge which has also been called the "poll tax" because it is assessed against all voting-agpeople makes no distinction for wealth as both property and income taxes usually do The resulting anomalies have been a r :::: :::? :::iy:- ::iiii':::':g::::::1 1'4'7' 2C ::::'::i::: : ::f:: ::::::::::::::'::::::::: - ''lfil:' torrr77:--:- : - ' ' ':::'''' ''''''''' '44 4 ak driving-while-intoxicate- d year-old'- ' ' ri::? r0 000 li ' ' ' :::::if:::::::::::::::::::::: fftiNgta street" From start to finish him off the That a man could be arrested 18 times for driving intoxicated and still be allowed to kill another motorist while driving drunk indicates a scandalous community lack Not just of jail space ::: ::::::::::::::M: IL!1i1pr-11- ' ' - rrt1r- kr :::::::::::!:Vi:::::i:s:i:::: 11 ' "' '''' ' '- ' ::::r- :::::::::iffi- : : - 'ow More Than Jail Space Needed To Cotmteract Drunk Drivers '''''''''Q441'''''' :i'' : ::':-- e: -- - 1 :':::::: :i:::iiii:-- ::::-: :' '''''''''''''''' :: :?:i: I: ::::::::::::::::::-:-:-- :: '''' - :':::::::':i:'i-t':':- ::::: A:4 11:44'''44 i !!7:-- ''':"''::i':":::?:'''' '':':'::':niiiii ''':':::':::::'':': - Wednesday Morning March 28 ' 4"""4411' ::: ' '::!:'"::'::':::':':':r::''- - ':ii:'i:'::: '::: : : 1 I The spending side would include all entitlements defense and the 4- ' 4 iti-- David Broder ' 44 ! rtJCf date-sniftin- g drives the annual interest payments —which are spiraling upward and leaving less and less room in the budget for everything else This is the hidden tax weare paying for not setting serious about the rising burden of public debt Sanford proposexp reality by defining thy deficit in bluntly unambiguous terms as the annual increase in the federal unified debt lit would also require thatpthe formal budget be presented in a simple enough that eten a mathematical simpleton like me could see where the govern ment actually stands First would by the retirement funds budget — including Social Security and Medicare It vt mild show the balance lytt when payments made to beneficiaries are deducted from all the incomt for the year employet and era cent ritiutifms payment: i'ront general lthtr fund: iindthtninteit st froth the Treasury for f i r'1 In inIS1 A)Ild lit !tit- ciefirlt kind debt ac (omit wllid vould start with the national delit at the beginning of the year add tilt amount of tlit inftrest bill deduct any' pay merit: wade duri4 the year tet reduce the debt and yield a year end debt figurc whirl Aould i f I that used i t sptu!tto i&iviijii tit i Hde w tb?' artyit rtc:!! ht :110A11 Ni11 NOILII6 a: Ow ypiNitItig budget The ineiiiii wild include all non rebrernent taxe go4rimietit s G1- across-the-boar- OMNIONNOIROMM i itt :::$ do- mestic programs Sanford would require that operating budget to be balanced every year and enforce the discipline by a mechanism modeled on the sequester or spending cut But unlike he would prevent or like evasions penalize hiding the cost of the savings-and-loabailout or using dodges to skirt the limits The General Accounting Office has just given Sanford analyses showing that his for mat would have shown the government ran operating budget deficiLs of $27 billion in fiscal 1988 and almost $19 billion in fiscal 1989 or rove requiring further nue increases both those years — Using the administration s optimistic projected budget numbers GA() calculates that the operating budget would swing intu sur- plus by $19 billion in fiscal 1990 and $56 billion in fiscal 1991 But the Sanford format Wm) shows would also highlight the fact that the real debt would be growing by more than $200 billion in each of those veiirs' and annual interest payments would be 'running around MO billion a year So there would to a compelling case err dent to the pubhe for using the operattog to reduce that interest hill Sanford's proposal actually sets forth a projected timetable for reducing the real deficit and estali hshes a trust fund (whirl would become part of the operating budget for enactment of tiv es dedicated only to tho reduction of the pilL 117 debt Skeptics may say that the Sanford plait offers no totter guarantee than tj lc II that the -i “i - 1im Uli Vtlil 00 !Milt 131i: " at a MillitnitIL it 'Afilitc pr(vidtsotripthini? 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